Rewinding apparatus



C. DI COMO.

REWINDING APPARAT US.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 15, 1.921.

Patented June 13, 1922.

WITNESSES HARLES D/ Co/wa A TTORIVEYS STATES CHARLES DI COMO, OF RAHWAY,NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF T0 GEORGE MEIR, OF RAHWAY, NEW JERSEY.

REWINDING APPARATUS.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented June 13, 1922,

Application filed April 15, 1921. Serial No. 461,468.

To alt whom it may concern.

Be it known that I CHARLES DI COMO, a citizen of the United States, anda resident of Rahway, in the county of Union and State of New Jersey,have invented a new and Improved Rewinding Apparatus, of which thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to re-winding devices and particularly to animproved rewinding device for use by barbers for rewinding paper and hasfor an object to provide a simple construction which is inexpensive butwhich will readily re-wind paper according to the desire of theoperator.

Another object of the invention is to provide a .re-winding device whichwill act to provide a number of small rolls from a large roll of paper,the arrangement permitting an easy removal of the re-wound rolls.

A still further object of the invention is to provide a re-windingdevice having means for supporting a large roll and holding the sameagainst rotation under the action of momentum and at the same timeproviding a readily removable re-winding bar which may be operatedthrough a multiplying mechanism or by a direct crank action.

In the accompanying drawing- Figure 1 is a perspective view of arewinding device disclosing an embodiment of the invention.

Figure 2 is a fragmentary sectional view through Figure 8 on line 2-2.

Figure 3 is a fragmentary side view of the upper part of one side of thefront end of the device shown in Figure 1, the same illustrating a rodlocking catch.

Figure 4 is a fragmentary view partially in section showing a modifiedarrangement of driving means for the re-winding rod.

Referring to the accompanying drawing by numerals, 1 indicatesa framewhich may be of cast metal or of any desired material, but preferablycomparatively heavy for its size so that it may readily remain in placeduring the operation of the crank 2 and associated parts. The frame 1 isprovided with posts 3 and 4- at the rear having notches 5 and 6 forreceiving the restricted ends of the roller 7 Roller 7 carries a largeroll 8 of paper which is to be re-wound on the rod 9 so as to form anumber of small rolls 10.

In barber shops where this device is intended to be used, small rollssimilar to roll 10 are p'rovided for the fitting in back of a barberchair and used as wiping paper for the razor. In this fitting the largeroll 8 could not be used but only small rolls similar to roll 10.

The paper when made at the factory is wound in large rolls similar toroll 8 so that at'some time it must be re-wound into a number of smallrolls 10. In the ordinary barber shop, there are periods when one ormore of the barbers are not working and at these slack times there-winding device embodying the invention may be operated to provide anynumber of small rolls 10 without any additional expense to the barber.Under the present system, small rolls 10 may be purchased but they arevery much more expensive than the large roll 8 and as small rolls may bewound by the barber without additional expense and said rolls may be ofany desired diameter according to his own particular wish, the apparatuswill produce a saving without adding any expense except the purchaseprice of the apparatus.

hen using the device, the spring pressed bar 11 is raised andthe roller7 with its roll 8 inserted as shown in Figure 1 and end bar 11 releasedwhich will provide the de sired tension and prevent the roller 7 fromrotating under momentum. Bar 11 is a U- shaped bar pivotally mounted at12 and 13 on the braces 14 and 15 and continually acted on by retractilesprings 16 and 17. After the roll 8 has been properly 'positioned it isunwound manually to a certain extent and looped over the bar 9 and heldby the fingers until said bar has rotated one or more times after whichthe bar is rotated fast or slow as desired and as many revolutions asdesired for producing the small roll 10. VVhen the small roll 10 hasbeen produced, the paper is torn or out between the rolls 8 and 10 andthe roll 10 removed and a new roll started. In order to remove the roll10, the bar 9 must be removed. Bar 9 is provided with an annular groove18 (Fig. 2) in which the spring catch 19 fits, said catch being held inplace by suitable screws 20 with an overlapping end 21 and a finger hold22. When the parts are arranged as shown in Figure 1, the finger hold 22is pressed toward the upright or post 3 which will cause the catch 19 tomove out of groove 18 whereupon the pinion 23 rigidly secured to shaft 9may be grasped and the bar 9 pulled longitudinally out of the uprights24 and 25 and out of the roll 10. As soon as the bar 9 has been thusremoved the roll 10 will fall down or be released for removal. Thepinion 23 meshes with a gear wheel-26 rigidly secured to a stub shaft 27journaled in the upright 24 and held in place by any suitable means,said shaft having the crank 2 rigidly connected therewith whereby thegear wheel 26 may be rotated freely. As gear wheel 26 is much largerthan pinion 23, the action of crank 2 is multiplied-and the bar 9 isrotated at a comparatively high speed. In case it should not bedesirable to use this multiplying mechanism, the shaft 9 could berigidly connected with the stub shaft 27 whereby the bar 9 Will rotateat the same speed as the crank 2.

WVhat I claim is A re-winding apparatus of the character described,comprising a body having two pairs of uprights,one pair of said uprightshaving a slot on the upper end thereof, each upright of said pair havinga supporting bar provided with an opening on the upper end thereof, aLi-shaped member pivotally secured to said bars and straddling theentire space'between said uprights of said pair, a spring acting on saidU-shaped members for pulling same downwardly, a roller carrier having anannular groove on each end thereof and fitting in said slots, a roll ofpaper CHARLES DI COMO.

